Results 1-19 of 19 for climate change speaker:Parmjit Dhanda

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: North East Regional Spatial Strategy (15 Jul 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: ...to be completed under the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. The plan reflects consideration of responses to the consultations on the Secretary of State's proposed changes and further proposed changes which followed on from the independent examination in public carried out into the draft strategy in 2006. The North East plan replaces the existing regional planning...

Written Ministerial Statements — Communities and Local Government: Planning Appeals (30 Jun 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: .... It replaces the previous policy on which appeals are recovered for the Secretary of State's determination (which was set out in a House of Commons Hansard written answer for 24 July 2006). These changes are being made following the review of the 2006 criteria promised in the White Paper, "Planning for a Sustainable Future". They introduce two new criteria, one of which relates to...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Departmental Film (20 May 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: ...: Case studies about people with mental health problems who feel excluded from society. The film's purpose is to enable people who feel excluded from society to successfully enter employment, by changing perceptions of people with mental health problems. The film was produced in consultation with the social exclusion unit. Date: 2006 2. A film about the work of the Department Length: 4...

Orders of the Day: Clause 3 — Short title and extent (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: .... I also thank the hon. Member for Sevenoaks for his contributions today. As I have said, I am pleased that the Bill aligns itself with the approach set out in the planning policy statement on climate change. It was important for hon. Members patiently to wait for the PPS. I know that the Bill has had a difficult birth, because of the waiting before Christmas, but the PPS is there now, and...

Orders of the Day: Clause 3 — Short title and extent (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: ...by local authorities. As we have learned in the course of the debate, local government has a vital role in ensuring that local communities and infrastructure are able to cope with the impact of climate change—not only the effects that are felt today but those that can be anticipated in future. The PPS, therefore, reflects the central role of planning in shaping places that are...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Microgeneration (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: ...and in my previous incarnation as an Education Minister I did all I could to get more microgeneration into our schools through the sustainable schools programme. As a consequence, we have seen real changes, which local authorities are working with: there are now better standards, and that ties in with the thinking behind new clause 3. Our schools have moved towards being...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Microgeneration (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: ...of the policies enabled by this Bill and expected in our planning policies. If the argument is that we would have the provision in statute, may I remind my hon. Friend that section 3 of the Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Act 2006 already requires local authorities to have regard to the energy measures report? The report provides information on the steps that local authorities can...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 3 — Microgeneration (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: ...supporting the Bill because it is about going beyond targets, and about local authorities encouraging ambition and innovation. My hon. Friend mentions new clause 7. Our planning policy statement on climate change requires local planning authorities to have an evidence-based understanding of the local feasibility of and potential for renewable and low-carbon technologies, such as...

Orders of the Day: New Clause 1 — Insulation standards (9 May 2008) has video

Parmjit Dhanda: ...and agreed in Committee were necessary to ensure that the Bill achieves its intended purpose. The Bill will sit within the wider package of initiatives that we are taking to tackle the impact of climate change. As my right hon. Friend the Minister for Housing said in Committee, we are introducing a raft of measures that reinforce our commitment to cut carbon emissions. The Climate Change...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Press Releases: Minister for the West Midlands (4 Feb 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: ...; Liam Byrne—Brings the 'Ideas People' Together; Liam Byrne—Brings the 'Ideas People' Together; West Midlands Leadership Group to Drive New Jobs and New Homes; Liam Byrne, Welcomes Climate Change Action Plan; Liam Byrne—Visits Bromyard, Herefordshire; Birmingham Can Be One of Europe's Global Gateways; Regional Minister Liam Byrne Meets Top Birmingham Exporters; Ministers...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Fire Services (31 Jan 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: ...and the latest version is 1.0. that was published in June 2007. The scale and nature of incidents that the Fire and Rescue Service is called upon to respond to has increased over recent years. Climate change, which leads to extreme weather events, and terrorism are already major threats. Planning for the future must reflect this reality: a strategy for replacing current controls is...

Public Bill Committee: Planning Bill: Clause 147 (29 Jan 2008)

Parmjit Dhanda: ..., who works hard on the issue of flooding. At the same time, policy is evolving around the Pitt review. Clause 147 is important, not least because of its reference to a planning policy statement on climate change. Although I take the hon. Lady’s comments on board, it would not be pertinent to include such a provision in the clause, which I hope will stand part of the Bill.

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Floods (13 Dec 2007)

Parmjit Dhanda: Planning Policy Statement 25 (PPS25) was published in December 2006 to provide stronger planning policy on development and flood risk. It incorporates the latest forecasts of climate change. It also requires regional planning bodies to ensure their regional spatial strategies include a broad consideration of flood risk from all sources and set out a strategy for managing it. This process is...

Written Answers — Communities and Local Government: Climate Change (10 Dec 2007)

Parmjit Dhanda: holding answer 6 December 2007 My Department has taken a number of steps to build adaptation to the effects of climate change into its policies. These include: Water scarcity—announcing regulations to be introduced on the water efficiency of new homes; Flood risk—publishing Planning Policy Statement 25: Development and Flood Risk, and publishing guidance on resilient...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Renewable Energy (8 Sep 2003)

Mr Parmjit Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment she has made of the effects of investment in renewable energy on reversing (a) climate change and (b) energy shortage.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Discussions (8 Sep 2003)

Mr Parmjit Dhanda: ...what discussions her Department has had with (a) the United States, (b) the European Union and (c) environmental organisations on international measures to assist developing nations in reducing climate change.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Departmental Discussions (8 Sep 2003)

Mr Parmjit Dhanda: ...what discussions her Department has had with (a) the United States, (b) the European Union and (c) environmental organisations on the obligations of (i) the UK and (ii) others to reverse (A) climate change and (B) energy shortage.

British Energy (29 Apr 2003)

Mr Parmjit Dhanda: ...House of Commons urge the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to continue her support for British Energy in the interests of security of supply, cost of electricity, to help reduce the effect of climate change and to avoid job losses and the knock-on impact on the local community. And the petitioners remain, etc. To lie upon the Table.

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Flooding (16 May 2002)

Mr Parmjit Dhanda: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent representations she has received on the impact climate change will have on flooding in the United Kingdom.